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May 3, 2012

Recently, researchers in the Netherlands and the United States identified genetic mutations that could enable H5N1 bird flu to become easily transmissible from one human to another. Controversy has emerged about whether the details of these two particularly sensitive H5N1 studies should be openly published to aid global pandemic preparedness or withheld in the interests of national security. Because similar ...

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WASHINGTON -- A majority of nations have yet to fulfill a 6-year-old U.N. mandate to develop certain critical public health capacities to respond to naturally occurring or man-made disease outbreaks, according to a senior U.S. State Department official.

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August 1, 2011

A journal article published in the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology (2011) Volume 17, describing a new trust-based global health security initiative known as CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance

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The World Health Organization this week declared its intention to host an international gathering to examine the issue of whether scientific research should be published if some nations believe that doing so could aid terrorists looking to develop biological weapons, the Canadian National Post reported.

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A senior U.N. official this week called for the establishment of an international mechanism for ensuring that advances in biotechnology are not exploited to develop biological weapons, BBC News reported.